{"id":1851392,"date":"2023-02-17T13:07:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T18:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1851392"},"modified":"2023-02-17T13:11:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T18:11:15","slug":"senior-isis-leader-killed-in-helicopter-raid-four-u-s-service-members-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senior-isis-leader-killed-in-helicopter-raid-four-u-s-service-members-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior ISIS Leader Killed in Helicopter Raid, Four U.S. Service Members Injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenior-isis-leader-killed-in-helicopter-raid-four-u-s-service-members-injured%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1851392&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">On Thursday night, four U.S. military personnel were injured by an explosion in a helicopter attack in northeast Syria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">Officials confirmed that the mission resulted in the death of a senior ISIS leader.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">&#8220;Last night, during a partnered U.S. and Syrian Democratic Forces helicopter raid in northeastern Syria, an explosion on target resulted in four U.S. service members and one working dog wounded,&#8221; A statement was made by the U.S. Central Command.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">&#8220;The U.S. service members and working dog are receiving treatment in a U.S. medical facility in Iraq,&#8221; According to the statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">Hamza al-Homsi was the ISIS leader killed in the raid.<\/p>\n<div class=\"oLzS QrHM uHkz gdzm  gemG HaxH UWgQ fCex aNZw GWDI PLlC rnLh wQDS LfML eAHW JRAg Cfpj kWAq gmVp mbSG uekX glbr Qjrf HtRU ZUtn NzDP tgdN KvAI nIeZ tGgb dLFt NSTt pvsT EhJP MjyP vPlO daRV ISNQ JHGY sKyC nFwa MCnQ RFDW mEee iulO NIuq zUcB zzsc OjMN eQqc UAzJ SVqK ONJd vrZx TOJy OnRT oMlS gfNz owUz oJhu PePT cabQ yubz\" data-testid=\"prism-Grid-Column\">\n<div class=\"InlineImage RDqG Ibgx eYLn\" data-testid=\"prism-inline-image\">\n<figure class=\"kzIj GNme pYrt dSqF\" data-testid=\"prism-figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"PHOTO: In this file photo from 2019, A helicopter takes off from a US military base at an undisclosed location in eastern Syria, Nov. 11, 2019.\" class=\"hsDd oOra gusu\" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/syrian-helicopter-ap-thg-230217_1676652702862_hpMain_16x9_992.jpg\"   style=\"display:none\"><figcaption>\n<div class=\"XRko PriD tSkS\" data-testid=\"prism-caption\">\n<p><span class=\"hsDd IzgM GpQC lZur\" data-testid=\"prism-truncate\"><span><span class=\"ncwc Qmvg nyTI VbLm ystq akor ARhV ygKV yHyq tsIf WHLR lKuK CVfp xijV soGR XgdC aWMf\">This file photo is from 2019, showing a helicopter taking off from an unidentified US military base in eastern Syria.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"YNuj DCmQ  ncwc Qmvg nyTI VbLm ystq akor ARhV ygKV yHyq tsIf WHLR lKuK CVfp xijV soGR XgdC aWMf\">Darko Bandic\/AP.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">According to a U.S. official, the four servicemen who were wounded were part of an operation force that targeted al-Homsi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">According to the U.S. official three service members are said to be in stable condition and the fourth to have returned to duty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">According to an official, the working dog&#8217;s condition is described as stable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">About 900 U.S. troops are currently operating in northeastern Syria under the control of Syrian Kurdish forces known collectively as the Syrian Democratic Force. There are also approximately 2,500 American troops in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">American troops in both countries continue to partner with local forces to combat the Islamic State&#8217;s threat and prevent its resurgence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">The terror group was defeated militarily by the Syrian government in 2019. Since then, its leaders are in hiding to avoid being attacked by U.S forces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">ISIS fighters continue to fight in Syria and Iraq at a low level, and ISIS continues to inspire West-based followers to launch violent attacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">ISIS launched its largest operation since the defeat of its military forces in January. Hundreds of ISIS fighters tried to liberate thousands of terrorist fighters held in a Hasakah prison in northeast Syria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish force, with the assistance of U.S. aircraftstrikes were able retake prison after 10 days. It is believed that many hundred ISIS prisoners managed to flee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">Kurdish forces claimed that 374 ISIS terrorists were killed during the attempted escape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">However, the group&#8217;s operations were severely affected by the death of Abu Ibrahim alHashimi alQurayshi, also known as Haji Abdullah. This was in February 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">As U.S. troops approached, the suicide vest he used to kill himself and his family killed the leader of ISIS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">He was killed in a drone strike, just months after his successor Maher Al-Agal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">The high-risk missions that U.S. special operation forces carry out in Syria are usually directed at ISIS leaders. This is done in order to collect more intelligence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">This includes areas in the far northwestern Syria where ISIS leaders sought refuge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">The Iranian-backed terrorist groups have also threatened the U.S. forces based in Syria, apart from ISIS. They have used drone and rocket attacks on U.S. military bases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">U.S. forces destroyed an Iranian-made drone, which was trying to perform reconnaissance over a U.S. military base in northeast Syria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday night, four U.S. military personnel were injured by an explosion in a helicopter attack in northeast Syria. Officials confirmed that the mission resulted in the death of a senior ISIS leader. &#8220;Last night, during a partnered U.S. and Syrian Democratic Forces helicopter raid in northeastern Syria, an explosion on target resulted in four &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1851395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[10228,6174,3937,3940,3939,7952,7400,4400,7238],"class_list":["post-1851392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-helicopter","tag-injured","tag-isis","tag-killed","tag-leader","tag-raid","tag-senior","tag-service","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1851392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1851395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1851392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1851392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1851392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}